Online Coop in NSMBU Impossible!?

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I kind of see what he's saying. There's no real downside to spending some spare time on an online mode and they almost always grant longevity to a game series. I wouldn't have purchased brawl if it didn't have online, as I rarely invite friends over to my house (we hang around outside and travel around the city) and I take my Wii outside to their houses even less. A primarily multiplayer game with local multiplayer only doesn't get the opportunity to be played much.

Nintendoland could have used this for its online games too. But Nintendo wants to mold the way you play the game which is kind of annoying. In the case of MSMBU, online would suck regardless...unless they had leader boards and for boost mode.

I kind of see what he's saying. There's no real downside to spending some spare time on an online mode and they almost always grant longevity to a game series. I wouldn't have purchased brawl if it didn't have online, as I rarely invite friends over to my house (we hang around outside and travel around the city) and I take my Wii outside to their houses even less. A primarily multiplayer game with local multiplayer only doesn't get the opportunity to be played much.

Nintendoland could have used this for its online games too. But Nintendo wants to mold the way you play the game which is kind of annoying. In the case of MSMBU, online would suck regardless...unless they had leader boards and for boost mode.

NintendoLand is a game designed around local multi - you're meant to interact with the other players in-game and out at the same time, and this is something that online play cannot duplicate. Online play would take away the whole essence of NL.

Side-scrolling Mario wouldn't benefit, either - boost mode would be a TRAIN WRECK! Whomever is putting up the platforms could troll you by not putting platforms where they're needed, with no recourse. The regular multiplayer options would be full of people dropping or throwing people in bottomless pits. This is acceptable in local, because you KNOW the people. This is trolling in online multi.

Finally, just because YOU don't do local multi doesn't mean that games should forgo concentrating on it. I have people over for Mario all the time - hell, between myself, my wife and my son, I almost never NEED someone to come over for local multi. Why should my multiplayer experience be diminished due to a lack of focus for yours due to your own personal decisions when there are already a crapton of games out there that offer online multiplayer?

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